In a bowl, stir together the oat flour, flax, corn starch, baking powder, baking soda, and sugar.Set aside.In another bowl, mash the bananas. Add the milk, egg, and oil and mix well.Add the banana mixture to the dry ingredients and stir until everything is mixed well and no dry spots are visible.Fold in the blueberries.Divide the batter evenly amongst the 12 muffin cups.Bake in the preheated oven for 18-20 minutes until you can lightly touch the muffin tops and they spring back.Take out of the oven and let sit in pan for 15 minutes.Loosen around the edges with a knife and let sit for another 15 minutes.Carefully remove from muffin cups.

Makes 12.

*******************You can buy oat flour or just grind dry oatmeal in a blender or food processor. If you have a spice grinder, that is perfect.

To make Peanut Butter:Add 6 cups master mix, 1/2 cup milk and 2 eggs to a bowl and add 1 cup peanut butter. Mix well and shape into 1″ balls.Place on greased cookie sheets and flatten by making a criss cross with a fork.Bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 12-15 minutes.

It saves you time, sometimes money, and it definitely saves your sanity.

You know the little things like keeping things in their proper space.

But, how bout keeping a running list so that when you run out of something you know to get more?It saves you checking when you make your grocery list.

Planning meals is good.I don’t always get it done, but it is helpful.

You know what to buy at the store,you don’t have to wrack your brain trying to figure it out,and if you pack lunches and/or make breakfast, things go smoother.

If you do pack lunches for work or school, leftovers can be great.Make extra food if you can.If that doesn’t work, make a meal and portion it into serving sizes and freeze or refrigerate for later lunches.

We are not cold cereal eaters.Which means making breakfast every morning.

You can always bake muffins the night beforeOryou can mix the dry ingredients in one bowl and wet ingredients in another bowl and mix them and bake in the morning.

Cinnamon rolls can be left to rise in the fridge overnight.Take out while you preheat the oven.Bake and nice hot breakfast.

Peel and slice the pears and spread evenly in the baking dish.In another bowl, combine the flour, oats, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger.Cut in the butter until you get coarse crumbs.Sprinkle the brown sugar mixture over the pears.

Bake for 30-35 minutes or until the pears are tender when pierced with a sharp knife.

My husband, daughter, and I went to my parent’s place to pick fruit.My sister showed up to help too.

Dad has a apple tree with a bumper crop.A couple pear trees and a couple peach trees too.

The peach are the small white Iowa peaches.Here is some of what we brought home.

These are not everything either.The fruit crisper drawer is full of apples and there is a cooler full in the garage.I have a cooler full of pears that isn’t in this pictures.There is also a huge box of peaches sitting in the back of the truck.Too full for us to want to move until some of the peaches are gone.

Sometimes there are discounted or free bananas because they are over-ripe.Grab them!

If you are given fruit, take it.

Fruit is so simple to freeze.

Peel and cut if needed.Or just wash.Freeze.

If you want to make sure the pieces don’t stick together, freeze in a single layer on a baking sheet for a couple hours.Take out of the freezer and put into containers or freezer bags.

Bananas are super simple.You can freeze them for a frozen treat or for baking.

For treats, you will want to peel and either leave whole or mash.My daughter likes them left whole, but you can mash them until smooth and than scoop out like ice cream.If you are planning to bake with them, you can peel and mash or you can just stick the whole banana in the freezer.

My mom peels and mashes. She measures and than freezes.

I just stick the unpeeled banana in a bag and into the freezer it goes.To use, thaw out and snip off one end of the banana and squish out the banana.What I like about doing it this way, is that the mashing is virtually unnecessary.

I have heard frozen grapes are good treats too.I have not tried it, but it’s an idea worth trying.